Closed Bug 439703 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Tools => Options dialog must not be modal

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 200159

People

(Reporter: timwi, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 Basically, there is no excuse for the Tools => Options dialog box to be modal. Reproducible: Always
You can make the options dialog non-modal by setting browser.preferences.instantApply to true. That option is available because that's the default behavior on Mac OSX. But the normal behavior in Windows is to use a modal dialog.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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